Via LWN, we found a blog post of a Debian maintainer which announces a new package: EGLIBC, a compatible reimplementation of the GNU glibc which "which will soon replace the GNU C Library". Apparently the primary reason is the sadly famous bad maintainership aptitude of Ulrich Drepper, the main libc maintainer.

I'm not sure this is the correct response. Ulrich is a Redhat employee, so the suits there should recognize he is splintering a very important part of the Linux stack and take appropriate administrative action.

It is clear he doesn't have the people skills to manage a project, but that doesn't mean he isn't a great individual contributor.

I'm not sure a fork is mandated at this point. Ideally, the embedded patches would be merged upstream.